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India signed a $5 billion deal to buy five Russian S-400 air defense systems on Friday despite a looming threat of U.S. sanctions on countries that trade with Russia's defense and intelligence sectors. The deal was signed in New Delhi during a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss nuclear energy, space exploration and trade. India has requested that the U.S. grant it a waiver for the deal from sanctions prescribed by the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, a U.S. law passed in August 2017 that is intended to punish Russia for its annexation of Crimea and alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. elections. The U.S. did not spare China from sanctions last month for purchasing its own Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems and fighter jets. Top News Photos: Melania Trump on Her 1st Solo Global Trip Carolyn Kaster/AP If the U.S. does impose sanctions on India, it is unclear how India could pay … [Read more...] about India Signs $5 Billion Deal for Russian Air Defense Systems

Story highlights Globally, the demand for whiteners continues to climb, especially in Asia, the Middle East and Africa The Asia-Pacific market is the most lucrative region, making up more than half of the global market (CNN)The ridicule started at age 6. Classmates would bully Fatima Lodhi, taunting her and other darker students with derogatory names. It got worse as she got older. In high school, she was nominated for the "Makeover Required" category in her high school in Islamabad, Pakistan. And in graduate school, fellow students would yell "let's paint her white" whenever she crossed their paths. Fatima Lodhi started an anti-colorism campaign called Dark is Divine. "All this was done by my light-skinned fellows, just to make me feel bad," said Lodhi, a 28-year-old early childhood educator who started the anti-colorism campaign Dark is Divine in 2013. The campaign conducts classes online and in schools on media literacy, confidence-building and inclusion, with the … [Read more...] about Asians still love skin whiteners, despite health concerns

By Devika Mittal Published: August 14, 2018 0 SHARES Share Tweet Email Muslims waiting to leave for Pakistan as they seek protected transport to Dot Purana Qila, an ancient fort in Pakistan, where many refugees had gathered in September 1947. PHOTO: GETTY As I think of the Partition that happened 71 years ago, it feels like a memory. Though I do not possess any personal narrative of it, yet it feels like I do have one – so personal that it invokes emotions. This owes to the Partition of 1947 being a national memory in both India and Pakistan to this day. A memory that, as Pakistani historian Ayesha Jalal notes, “continues to influence how the peoples and states of postcolonial South Asia envisage their past, present and future”. Despite this eminence, it feels like there is a dearth of narratives; stories that remain to be told and heard, dialogues that need to take place. The memory of the Partition itself cannot be sealed off, and this article is … [Read more...] about 5 stories that prove the trauma of Partition did not end in 1947

KOCHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Two new cases of the deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus have been confirmed in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where another two people were killed by the virus, a health official said on Thursday. People wear masks as they wait outside a casualty ward at a hospital in Kozhikode in the southern state of Kerala, India, May 23, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo The two new Nipah cases in Kerala take the total number of confirmed cases to 17, Kozhikode district medical officer V. Jayashree told Reuters. Fifteen of those people have died, she said. The latest victims, identified as Madhusudhanan, 55, and Akhil, 28, were believed to have contracted the virus from a medical college, Jayashree said. No confirmed cases of the virus have been found yet outside Kerala despite fears it had spread. Several other Indian states have sent samples for testing from people who reported Nipah-like symptoms in the past few days. Samples taken from bats in Kozhikode … [Read more...] about Nipah virus death toll rises to 15, two new cases found in India’s…